Robert Burns

Robert Burns was Scotland’s national poet, celebrated for poetry and songs that brought Scots language, rural life, traditional culture, and political feeling into enduring literary form. His 1786 collection, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, established his reputation, while works such as “Tam o’ Shanter,” “Auld Lang Syne,” and “Address to a Haggis” secured his lasting cultural influence. Though he worked as a tenant farmer and later an excise officer, Burns remained devoted to collecting, adapting, and composing Scottish song.